Counterterrorism Expert Named as Head of FBI’s Chicago Office

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  Robert Holley, one of the FBI’s premier counterterrorism experts, was tapped to head the bureau’s Chicago office, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The 55-year-old will join the Chicago office as the new Special Agent in Charge in October, the Sun-Times wrote. Holley worked in Chicago in the past as the office’s lead counterterrorism…

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Former Head of FBI’s Boston Office Accused of Exploiting Connections to Bureau

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The former special agent in charge of Boston’s FBI office has been slapped with a federal ethics violation for consulting professionally with a former colleague within a year of service, the Associated Press reports. Kenneth Kaiser, 57, who became an assistant director at FBI headquarters when he left the Boston office in…

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Special Agent in Charge of Milwaukee FBI Assigned to Building Division in D.C.

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  Head of the FBI’s Milwaukee office, Teresa Carlson, is temporarily working at the Facilities and Logistics Services Division at headquarters in Washington D.C. while authorities investigate claims that she pressured a subordinate to commit perjury, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Still, Carlson remains the special agent in charge of the Milwaukee office,…

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Top FBI Agent in Washington State Claims She Was Discriminated Against for Job Promotions

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Laura M.  Laughlin, the top FBI agent in Washington state, says she continues to be discriminated against nearly two years after filing a gender discrimination suit against the bureau, McClatchy reports. Special agent-in-charge of the FBI’s Seattle field office, Laughlin contends in an updated legal filing that her gender has cost her…

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Philadelphia Division of ATF Has New Leader with 20 Years of Federal Law Enforcement Experience

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  Twenty-year veteran Essam Rabadi became the new special agent in charge this month, Philly.com reports. Rabadi, a native of Yonkers, N.Y., became an ATF special agent in 1992, three years after he started off as a local police officer, Philly.com reported. Rabadi supervised the Philadelphia division’s drug-trafficking task force from 2000 to…

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